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WDS & Litetouch Deployment

3rd July 2013, 15:12

Afternoon

I have been working with WDS and MDT2012 to deploy our company images to machines.

I am currently experiencing a issue when i PXE boot and within the litetouch wizard i have selected the image i would like to use, whilst customizing the reference machine. By default the computer name is set to OPEL-XXXXXX, i then change the computer name to OPEL-12346 and choose to join the domain. After a few minutes the image is applied to the reference machine, its added to the domain however the hostname is still OPEL-XXXXXX. Has anyone come accross this?

Ever try pre-staging the computer name you want to use? This was simple on Srvr 2003, and is again in 2012, but they changed it slightly in 2008.

Install the RSAT admin pack on your WDS server, this gives you the tab 'Remote Install' in 'Users & Computers', when ADUC is opened on that box. Create the computer object in whichever OU you want, and on the tab I named above, enter in the new PC's MAC address, PREfixed by 20 zeros, no dashes, spaces or other characters. Click on OK and it's done.

When that PC goes thru the image deployment and domain join, it should pick up the name from the AD object you created earlier. Yes there's the issue of getting the PC's MAC before Windows is up & running, but simply interrupt the initial PXE boot soon as the MAC is displayed on-screen, and enter it. Unless you have some documentation from the vendor with all the MAC's listed, I don't know of another way to do that, but maybe someone else here does.

*RicklesP*
MSCA (2003/XP), Security+, CCNA

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